Estonia

Finland

The project "FinDiaSyn: Regional aspects of Finnish Syntax" running 2008-2011 is hosted by the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus), and funded by the Academy of Finland. The FinDiaSyn NordForsk network group has the following members: Maria Vilkuna, project leader (Research Institute for the Languages of Finland), Urpo Nikanne (Åbo Akademi University), Hannele Forsberg (University of Joensuu), Jaakko Leino (Åbo Akademi University and University of Helsinki), Mari Siiroiinen (University of Helsinki), Heli Pekkarinen, PhD student (University of Helsinki), Markus Hamunen, research assistant (University of Helsinki), Miia Karttunen, research assistant (University of Joensuu).

France

University of Bayonne, IKER: The Basque Text and Language Study Center investigates Basque dialects under the auspices of BasDiSyn, a co-operative dialect syntax enterprise involving in addition the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the University of Deusto, CUNY and Paris 8. (Additionally, the computational aspects of the project are handled by the IXA team from the UPV/EHU and the Ametzagaiña group.) BasDiSyn comprises two recently funded research projects: "Basque Comparative Syntax: towards a Basque Dialect Grammar", based in Madrid and co-ordinated by Beatriz Fernández, and "Towards a syntactic atlas of the Basque language", which is running in Paris, co-ordinated by Ricardo Etxepare.

University Nice - Sophia Antipolis / CNRS UMR 7320 BCL (Bases, Corpus, Langage): within the program 'THESAURUS OCCITAN' (THESOC), a huge database of Occitan dialects first dedicated to lexical and phonological data, Michèle Oliviéri studies the syntax of Occitan dialects. The morphosyntactic module of the THESOC (MMS) is in process, and will progress with the project DADDIPRO.

Helmut Weiss (University of Frankfurt, Institute of German language sciences and literature II), Jurg Fleischer (University of Marburg) and Alexandra Lenz (University of Vienna) have been developing a project proposal for the study of the syntax of Hessian dialects. Alexandera Lenz is supervising the research of Tim Kallenborn, who is investigating the syntax of varieties of Moselle-Franconia.

Macedonia

University of Skopje: Olga Tomic, also affiliated at University of Novi Sad in Serbia, carries out research into Slavic Balkan dialects.

Netherlands

Fryske Akademy: The department of linguistics carries out research into Frisian dialects. It was also involved in the SAND project. The development of a database of spoken Frisian is currently undertaken.

Leiden University: Johan Rooryck was involved as supervisor in the SAND project. Roberta D'Alessandro (Department of Italian) is holder of a NWO-project on Italian dialects. Tanja Temmerman (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics) is a PhD student investigating variation in the left periphery of Dutch (dialects).

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), HiTT (Basque Research Group of Theoretical Linguistics): this research group studies Basque dialect syntax. Beatriz Fernández is involved in the collaborative dialect syntax enterprise BasDiSyn. The research team includes Pablo Albizu, Ane Berro, Maia Duguine, Arantzazu Elordieta, Patxi Goenaga and Ane Odria in the University of the Basque Country; Ricardo Etxepare, Urtzi Etxebarria, Beñat Oyharçabal and Aritz Irurtzun in IKER UMR 5478; Jon Ortiz de Urbina in the University of Deusto; Milan Rezac in CNRS UMR 7023 University Paris 8; and Bill Haddican in CUNY (New York).

Additionally, the computational aspects of the project are handled by Mikel Lersundi, Gotzon Santander, Aitor Soroa and Larraitz Uria at the IXA team in the University of the Basque Country and by Josu Landa at the Ametzagaiña group. BasDiSyn comprises two recently funded research projects: "Basque Comparative Syntax: towards a Basque Dialect Grammar", based in Madrid and co-ordinated by Beatriz Fernández, and "Towards a syntactic atlas of the Basque language", running in Paris and co-ordinated by Ricardo Etxepare.

University of Zürich, Germanische Philologie, Abteilung für Linguistik: Elvira Glaser was involved in the development of a syntactic atlas of Swiss German Dialects (SADS), the data of which are stored in a digital corpus. Michele Loporcaro does research into Italian dialects.

Martin Salzmann (currently at University of Leipzig) wrote a PhD dissertation on syntactic aspects of Swiss German, and is also involved in micro-syntactic research.

Lisa Green at the University of Texas at Austin has been carrying out research on African American English.

Annemarie Toebosch has been investigating Plautdietsch (a language of Netherlandic Mennonites in the Americas).

Ananda Lima at University of California, Los Angeles Linguistics Department is carrying out micro-syntactic research on variation in Brazilian Portuguese determiner phrases as part of her work on her PhD dissertation.